The World Is Getting So Ugly And Bleak And It’s Hard Not To Feel So Hopeless. But We Have To Remember

don’t stare at the moon too long or else you’ll remember that nothing in this stupid fucking world makes sense

Как же я хочу быть гениальной. До слез

Korakuen Garden in Okayama, Japan with my Mamiya C330 on Kodak Portra 160

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1992: Donna Tartt being interviewed by Jill Eisenstadt shorty after the release of TSH.

Albert Camus and his cat, Cigarette

This is so real

guys this is going to sound really dumb. but. like does julian have other classes in other years? so THE greek class (richard, henry, etc.) are all in the same year of college, but obviously there are years younger than them, and people who used to be before them. like who did julian teach before them? who else does he teach if he does? this is what i’m curious about. 😔

camilla at henry's grave every year whispering his name over and over to herself because of the time he told her that the romans believed saying a dead person's name gives them just a little bit more immortality

i was doing research on donna’s life because i’m writing a thesis on the secret history and i came across this beautiful article that delves into her private life a bit more, revealing that there are a lot of personal stories she included in the book, such as her love for proust, which, in fact, isn’t the only thing she shares in common with richard as her voice because indistinguishable from his, since she spent 9 years writing a story from his point of view. people that know her described her as a great storyteller and an eloquent person who was rather quiet in real life, but also an insomniac smoking in her room at 4am and that awfully reminded me of richard as well. they way her looks were described resemble camilla - boyish haircut and boys’ suits, which is the similarity they have regarding appearance, but another thing that binds them together is the fact that donna herself was in a college clique similar to the greek class, except that she was surrounded by a couple of other literature students, making her the only girl in the group! they even had an eccentric professor picky about his students in a way that julian was. her accent, is in a way, southern yet british sounding, which is how she described francis’s accent. what’s beautiful about all of this is that it seems as if she didn’t do it on purpose but rather that her life became intertwined with the character’s life, blurring the lines between the two to the point that not even donna could distinguish it. as a writer, i know how easy it is for that to happen and how beautiful it is to look back on your manuscript and notice how you left pieces of yourself in it.

mr secret history francis abernathy and hobie being friends in the goldfinch my love